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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 159.42-1.2%Jan 16 9:30 AM EST
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To: Don S.Boller who wrote (13326)8/4/1998 7:59:00 PM
From: Asterisk  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
Absolutely... Any investment that anyone makes is unstable. The return that you get is directly proportional to that instability. If you buy a new startup that may tank tomorrow then you should get a better promised rate of return than if you bought government bonds. What everyone here is saying is exactly that, in the long run the fundamentals rule, big risk, big return, little or no risk, little or no return. The big problem with the market today is exactly as you see it here, perception. If Joe Schmoe percieves that MSFT is worth 100 billion and he is willing to pay that then that is what the company is worth (at that time), to hell with fundamentals. This is one of the EXACT lessons that Japan is learning in a more fundamental way. You make loans based on the current valuation of property and the property value falls then you have a problem. If you stick to the fundamentals when choosing your investments then you are on more stable ground, but you are still making an investment in the possible earnings of a company. If their one and only plant burns down tomorrow from lighning strike then you have a worthless investment, but those are the chances we take.
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